Let us disengage ourselves from care about the passing things of time; let us soar above our worldly possessions. The bee does not less need its wings when it has gathered an abundant store, for if it sink in the honey, it dies.
—Saint Augustine.
Perhaps if we could penetrate nature's secrets, we should find that what we call needs are more essential to the well-being of the world than the most precious grain or fruit.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?
—Matthew 6. 25.
